A compliant bistable mechanism design incorporating elastica buckling beam theory and pseudo-riqid-body model

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Sönmez, Ümit ^a   Tutum, Cem C ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bistable micromechanisms; Buckling beam theory; Compliant mechanisms; Elastica theory; Large deflection analysis; Pseudo rigid body model

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; KINEMATICS; MACHINE DESIGN; MECHANISMS; RIGID STRUCTURES;

BEAM THEORIES; BISTABLE MICROMECHANISM; BISTABLES; BUCKLING BEAM THEORY; BUCKLING BEAMS; ELASTICA; ELASTICA THEORY; LARGE DEFLECTION ANALYSIS; MICROMECHANISMS; PSEUDO-RIGID BODY MODELS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 45149096582     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2839009     Document Type: Article

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